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	Anetavle of Ketil 'Ken' Nygaard
		Sverre Sigurdsson of Norway, son of Sigurd II Haraldsson Mouth of Norway and Gunhild, was born from circa 1149 to 1151 in Faroe Islands, died on 9 Mar 1202 in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway, and was buried in Kristkirken, Bergen, Hordaland, Norway.
		Sigurd II Haraldsson Mouth of Norway, son of Harald IV "Gille" Magnusson of Norway and Tora Guttormsdatter, was born circa 1133 and died on 10 Jun 1155 in Bergen.
		Olav III Kyrre of Norway, son of Harald III Sigurdsson Hardråde of Norway and Tora Torbergsdatter of Giske, was born circa 1050 in Norway and died on 22 Sep 1093 in Håkeby, Tanum, Bohuslan, Sweden.
	nygaard.howards.net /ancestors.htm (10713 words)

	Norway - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The snow-line in Norway is estimated at 3080 ft. in Seiland, 5150 ft. on Dovre Fjeld, and from 4100 to 4900 ft. in Jotunheim.
		Norway is naturally divided into three parts, and each of these remained more or less separate for centuries, even having separate laws until the second half of the 13th century.
		Russia had long eclipsed Norway as the centre of the fur trade, and other industries must have suffered, not only from the civil wars, but also from the supremacy of the Hanseatic towns, which dominated the North, and could dictate their own terms.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Norway (15383 words)

	Sigurd II of Norway - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Sigurd II (1133–1155) was the son of Harald Gille, king of Norway and his mistress Tora Guttormsdottir.
		Sigurd grew up in Trøndelag, and was made king there in 1136 upon the murder of his father, King Harald, together with his younger brother Inge.
		Sigurd II of Norway, Norwegian monarchs, 1133 births, 1155 deaths, Fairhair dynasty and Norwegian civil wars.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Sigurd_Haraldson (478 words)

	Anetavle of Ketil 'Ken' Nygaard
		Valdemar II Sejr of Denmark was born on 28 Jun 1170 and died on 28 Mar 1241 in Vordingborg.
		Sigurd II Haraldsson Mouth of Norway was born circa 1133 and died on 10 Jun 1155 in Bergen.
		Mieszko II Lambert of Poland was born in 990 in Poznan, Poland.
	nygaard.50g.com /ancestors.htm (7582 words)

	History of Norway
		With Sigurd's death (1130) the kingdom entered upon a period of disorder caused partly by strife between claimants to the throne, partly by rivalry between the secular and ecclesiastical dignitaries, whose partisans (known as the Birkebeinar and the Baglar) perpetrated unbelievable outrages and cruelty on each other.
		In Norway she was not only made ruler for life, but her nephew, Eric of Pomerania, was acknowledged as the lawful heir.
		Norway was one of the signers of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949 and was a founding member of the United Nations.
	www.historyofnations.net /europe/norway.html (1648 words)

	Norway - MSN Encarta
		Norway was divided for a short time, but was reunited by Olaf II, who made himself king in 1015.
		The country’s decline was compounded by the Black Death, the plague that had swept through Norway and the rest of Europe in the 14th century, killing up to one third of the population.
		Norwegian nationalism increased, and the Storting complained that Swedish treatment of Norway was not consistent with the spirit of the Act of Union and with the status of Norway as an equal state.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761556517_8/Norway.html (1236 words)

	Norway - MSN Encarta
		Norway was reunited by Olaf II, who made himself king of Norway in 1015.
		Sweden and Denmark were larger and wealthier than Norway, which had lost much of its population and many of its farms in the mid-14th century during an outbreak of bubonic plague called the Black Death.
		In the wake of the introduction of Lutheranism as a state religion in Norway by Danish king Christian III in 1536, Norway became a province of Denmark.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761556517_10/Norway.html (1604 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Norway
		Norway, comprising the smaller division of the Scandinavian peninsula, is bounded on the east by Lapland and Sweden, and on the west by the Atlantic.
		As regards territorial development in the Middle Ages, Norway had a number of tributary provinces--in the north, Finmark, inhabited by heathen Lapps; various groups of islands south-west of Norway as: the Farve Islands, the Orkneys, the Shetlands, and the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, to which were added later Iceland and Greenland.
		Christian's son, Frederick II (1559-88), paid no attention to Norway, but much was done for the country during the long reign of Christian IV (1588-1648), who endeavoured to develop the country by encouraging mining at Konsberg and Röraas, and to protect it from attack by improving the army.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11117b.htm (4718 words)

	Norway
		Norway is first and foremost a maritime nation, and most of its population lives along the coast or on the hundreds of coastal islands, where the weather is moderated by the Gulf Stream.
		Norway is split in three parts by Olof Skötkonung, King of Svealand, his step-father Svend Forkbeard, King of Denmark, and the exiled Jarl Eirik.
		Margarethe is appointed Regent and unites Norway, Sweden, and Denmark in the Union of Kalmar.
	www.angelfire.com /me/Merethe/norwayinfo1.html (4525 words)

	Meulie family - pafg01 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Leif Digre [Parents] was born on 31 Jan 1943 in Steinkjær, Norway.
		Per Sigurd Digre was born on 02 Jul 1968.
		Sigurd Holmberg was born on 10 Apr 1915.
	genealogy.meulie.net /pafg01.htm (437 words)

	Norway Heads
		At the age of ten, in 1363, Margrethe was married to King Håkon VI of Norway, son of Magnus II of Sweden and Norway.
		Their son Olaf, born in 1370, was elected King Olaf II of Denmark in 1375 at the death of Margrethe's father, with her as regent.
		Sigurd had many high posts in the realm, as regent of the kingdom and in 1448 he was in question as candidate for the position of king - he was a descendant of Håkon 5, trough the female line.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /Norway_Heads.htm (1262 words)

	World Homes Network - Norway
		Sigurd, the longest-surviving son, was the last of the line of Harald Hårfager to wield undisputed sway over Norway, and his death in 1130 ended what has been called the classic period of Norwegian history.
		Norway was made a province of Denmark (1536), forced to accept Christian III as king (ruled 1535-59), and compelled to adopt the Lutheran faith.
		Norway suffered considerably in the constant wars between Sweden and Denmark (the former having seceded from the union in the early 16th century), losing the provinces of Hä rjedalen and Jämtland in 1645 and Bohuslän in 1658.
	www.world-homes.net /atlas/europe/Scandanavia/norway.htm (3277 words)

	INDUSTRIAS - Artículo en línea de la información acerca de INDUSTRIAS
		Norway in about the 6th century, and later on the ancient laws of this region forbid the practice of visiting the'" Finns " to obtain knowledge of the future.
		Norway is naturally divided into three parts, and each of these remained more or less separate for centuries, even having separate laws until the second half of the 13th century.
		Oldenburg by the Danes, it was by force that Norway fell to the latter.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /es/I27_INV/INDUSTRIAS.html (11776 words)

	Kings and Queens of Scotland, Part 1
		Kenneth II was the son of Malcolm I and therefore a great-great-grandson of Kenneth I
		Henry II of England also reclaimed Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland which had been ceded to Scotland during the reign of David I. After fighting in France on behalf of King Henry of England he returned and defeated Somerled who was attempting to advance eastwards, but not before the town of Glasgow had been sacked.
		Alexander II was the son of William the Lion and came to the throne at the age of 16.
	www.rampantscotland.com /features/monarchs.htm (2683 words)

	Scandinavia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Norway was united with Denmark in personal union from the 14th century; in 1814 it was detached from Denmark, and amalgamated with Sweden.
		Sigurd's daughter Ragnhild married Halfdan the Black of Vestfold; their son was Harold I Fine-Hair, the unifier of Norway.
		Sigurd (the nickname translates as "Sow", and isn't a compliment) was the father of Harold Hardruler, leader of the Varangians, King of Norway, and often called the "Last of the Vikings".
	www.hostkingdom.net /scand.html (3572 words)

	Völsunga Saga
		Geneology: House of the Volsungs and the Giukings (Niflungs)
		Sigurd met an old man with one eye (Odin in disguised again) and advised Sigurd to choose the young grey, telling the young hero that this horse was bred by Sleipnir (Odin's horse).
		When Sigurd visit her, he revealed that he had been deceived by the magic of Grimhild, causing him to forget her and married Gudrun, yet it was too late for him to correct matters after Brynhild married Gunnar.
	www.timelessmyths.com /norse/volsunga.html (5249 words)

	Norway : In Depth : History \| Frommers.com
		Norway's parliamentary assembly, the Storting (Stortinget), engaged in repeated conflicts with the Swedish monarchs.
		In October 1905 Norway held an election, and the son of Denmark's king was proclaimed king of Norway.
		The couple's marriage raised some astonishment among Norway's more conservative factions, since the father of Hoiby's child is a convicted cocaine supplier, and she had been well known on Oslo's "dance-and-drugs house party scene," as one newspaper commentator put it.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/norway/0262020044.html (2146 words)

	OMACL: Heimskringla
		Saga of King Harald Grafeld and of Earl Hakon Son of Sigurd
		Saga of Sigurd, Inge, and Eystein, the Sons of Harald
		His narratives are considered by many men of knowledge to be the most remarkable of all; because he was a man of good understanding, and so old that his birth was as far back as the year after Harald Sigurdson's fall.
	omacl.org /Heimskringla (1102 words)

	Harald III of Norway Summary
		Son of King Sigurd and half brother to King Olaf II (the Saint), Harold was severely wounded at Stiklarsladir fighting at the age of 15 against the largest army ever assembled in Norway.
		Born in 1015, Harald was the youngest of King Olaf II's three half-brothers born to Åsta Gudbrandsdatter.
		Magnus I of Norway was the son of Olaf II and nephew of Harald.
	www.bookrags.com /Harald_III_of_Norway (1103 words)

	Ancestors and Family of Magnus IV the Blind of Norway
		MAGNUS THE BLIND, Norwegian MAGNUS DEN BLINDE, joint ruler of Norway (1130-35), with Harald IV, whose abortive attempt (1137-39) to wrest sovereignty from Inge I Haroldsson and Sigurd II, sons of Harald IV, ended the first epoch in the period of Norwegian civil wars (1130-1240).
		The son of the Norwegian king Sigurd I Magnusson, Magnus succeeded to the throne jointly with Harald IV in 1130.
		He was liberated in 1137 by Sigurd Slembi, who had slain Harald the year before but could not gain support for his own claim to the throne and hoped, instead, to install Magnus as king.
	nygaard.howards.net /files/87.htm (230 words)

	Early Kings of Norway - Chapter XII.
		Olaf the Tranquil, Magnus Barefoot, and Sigurd the Crusader.
		And the truth is, Sigurd intrinsically was a wise, able, and prudent man; who, surviving both his brothers, reigned a good while alone in a solid and successful way.
		Sigurd himself seems always to have rather favored Gylle, who was a cheerful, shrewd, patient, witty, and effective fellow; and had at first much quizzing to endure, from the younger kind, on account of his Irish way of speaking Norse, and for other reasons.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/european/EarlyKingsofNorway/chap12.html (1398 words)

	Norway
		Claimed to be son of Magnus III Barefoot; appeared in Norway (1128); at death of Sigurd I (1130), chosen by one faction as king opposed to Magnus IV; civil war (1134-35); captured and blinded Magnus (1135); slain by pretender Sigurd Slembi.
		Margaret I (1353-1412), queen of Denmark and Norway (1387-97) and of Sweden (1389-97), and founder of the Kalmar Union.
		Daughter of King Erik II of Norway and granddaughter of Alexander III of Scotland and Margaret; affianced to Prince Edward, son of Edward I of England (1287); died in Orkneys en route to England.
	website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/norway.htm (2417 words)

	Norway.com - Norway travel, business, cruises and energy resources
		While Norway's growing emphasis on shipping and Sweden's continued protectionist policies argued for separate Norwegian and Swedish consulate representatives to deal with their distinctly separate economic interests, political ideology tended to keep liberal and conservative Norwegians from recognizing common national interests.
		Norway's only alternative was to stand united with Conservatives and Liberals agreeing on a common policy.
		Norway would thereby gain its independence while also alleviating Sweden's fears of the foreign policy consequences of such a development.
	noram.norway.com /publish.asp?id=148&mid=59 (917 words)

	Antisemitism Worldwide 2004 -
		In March 1999, Norway became the first country occupied by Nazi Germany in World War II to create a fund for the restitution of Jewish property confiscated by the Quisling government.
		A significant part of the settlement − NOK40 million − between the State of Norway and the Jewish communities of Norway finances the Center for Holocaust and Religious Minority Studies in Norway, a research and documentation institution affiliated with the University of Oslo.
		The piece consisted of yellow stars (which Jews were forced to wear under the Nazi regime), symbolizing the allegedly murderous nature of Jews, a dollar sign, representing 'Jewish greed', and the word ‘Holocaust’ together with the date, 29 November 1947 (the date of the UN vote for the partition of Palestine).
	www.tau.ac.il /Anti-Semitism/asw2004/norway.htm (1415 words)

	GERMANIA: Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Vikings, Orkney, etc.
		Although Norway was probably still able to defeat the Scots in pitched battle, King Alexander III of Scotland maneuvered Scottish forces into control over the Isles and Man. In 1266, the Norwegians accepted a payment and annual tribute to surrender sovereignty to Scotland.
		Alexander II was captured by King James I of Scotland, as was John II by James III.
		Shetland Islands, for the dowry of Margaret of Oldenburg, daughter of Christian I, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, in her marriage to King James III of Scotland.
	www.friesian.com /germania.htm (8693 words)

	Norway Info - The Bookstore - Digital and Audio books
		Sigurd Ibsen spent most of his young life moving around Europe with his father, playwright Henrik Ibsen, and so had difficulty perceiving of himself as Norwegian.
		The successful use of this concept in Norway, which has sparsely populated, geographically isolated and homogenous communities, is examined.
		Norway: land of the midnight sun: Winter is a dark time in northern Norway.
	www.cyberclip.com /Katrine/NorwayInfo/Book/audio.html (785 words)

	The Carved Stones of Islay - Part II History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sigurd, on the death of Magnus Barefoot his father, returned to Norway, leaving to Lagman the son of Crovan, the sovereignty of the Isles.
		Angus Mor seems to have been loyal to Norway until he was reduced to extremities by Alexander the Third who drove him from his possessions; be reinstated his son as a hostage.
		John espoused the cause of Edward Balliol, probably in fear of losing the rich possessions which his father had received from Bruce, and so when David II ascended the throne in 1341 he found himself in the very strait he had tried to avoid, and was in imminent danger of forfeiture.
	www.islayinfo.com /carved_stones_islay_history.html (3607 words)

	In Memory of King Oscar II of Norway
		Oscar II was born on January 21, 1829 as Prince Oscar Fredrik in the reign of Carl Johan as third son to Crown Prince Oscar and Crown Princess Josephine.
		Another theory was that since Oscar II had “ceased to govern” or “deposed himself” through the “effective abdication” in the Cabinet meeting on May 27, the oath to him was no longer valid.
		Oscar II was a part of a regime that was supposed to be limited after monarchical absolutism had been allowed to blossom.
	www.royaltymonarchy.com /opinion/articles/baltzersen2.htm (8806 words)

	Boats escaping from Norway WW II - V
		Vilhelm, Sigurd and Arvid served with the Norwegian 52nd ML flotilla in the English Channel (Dover) until they in Sept.-1944 were sent to the 54th MTB flotilla, Shetland, where Oscar served the whole time.
		Sigurd Jakobsen was arrested as were 17 others, but he was able to warn the 2 in time for them to get away.
		Skipper and owner was Hans Feie from Fosnavåg, who subsequently joined the "North Sea Traffic", at first as skipper on one of the boats that transported intelligence people to Norway, later as pilot in the MTB Squadron at Lerwick.
	www.warsailors.com /shetlandbus/boatsv.html (2534 words)

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